And there is not a thing but that the stores thereof are with Us: that is to say, there is not a thing in [all of] existence but that with Us there is a store for it in the world of decree, first by its form becoming delineated in the Mother Book, which is the Universal Intellect, in a universal way; then [there is] another store in the world of the universal soul, which is the Preserved Tablet, by its form becoming delineated therein as being dependent on its causes; then [there is yet] another store, nay, stores in the particular heavenly souls expressed in [the concept of] the heaven of this world (samāÌ al-dunyā) and the Tablet of Destiny (lawḥ al-qadar) by the form of that [thing] becoming delineated therein as a particular, determined according to its measure, shape and situation; and We do not send it down, in the world of the witnessing, except in a known measure, in terms of shape, quantity and situation, as well as a time and locus that is designated and a preparedness that is specific to that [thing] at that moment.
